Trial for Arsenal
The staff took them to the training ground of the U21 youth team. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
At this time, those young players are training in full swing and full of energy.
Arsenal's youth teams are stronger in the youth league than their first team in the Premier League, and they are strong contenders for the league title, and they know very well that in such a team, failure to work means elimination!
The staff whispered a few words to Benfield, the coach of the U21 youth team, and Benfield walked over and glanced at Xiao Ji.
"Yellow people? These scouts are too messy to come, see the guys with money eyes. Benfield immediately frowned.
After reading Xiao Ji's information, he was born in July 1993, is 20 years old this year, is good at long-range shooting, and his training and competition experience have not yet been found.
Benfield's brows furrowed even deeper, "It's just such a short introduction, and the training and game experience have not been found, and this kind of person can also try out for the great Arsenal youth team?" Damn scouts. ā
Although he was very dissatisfied with the scout's report, Benfield was still ready to test Xiao Ji now that he was given a tryout.
"Xiao, right, let's go take a physical fitness test first."
Seeing someone come to try out, the youth team players also stopped training and stayed on the sidelines to watch the excitement.
It turns out that watching the excitement is not the exclusive talent of Chinese people, and foreigners also like it.
The first is the 100-meter run, which is mainly a test of the absolute speed of the players.
Xiao Ji is very familiar with this 100-meter run, he was still participating in the 100-meter race more than 1 month ago, and he walked on the track with a familiar car, preparing, listening to the gun, accelerating, and sprinting, which was very smooth, and it was a normal performance.
Xiao Ji felt that he was just normal, Benfield didn't see it that way, he was completely shocked, and even more so with the young players.
"Oh, it's so fast, and it's so explosive."
"yes, it's so fast, it's faster halfway."
"It's like a gust of wind...... No, it's lightning, yellow lightning! ā
"Finally sprinted, oh my God, his cadence was so high! I can't even see his feet clearly! ā
"What is he? I feel like Walcott is nothing more than that. ā
"This guy is a sprinter, he's running too fast."
This young man really guessed correctly, Xiao Ji is really a sprinter, and he will continue to develop in sprinting in the future.
Benfield looked down at the time: 10.33, which is an excellent result, and Walcott, the "little tiger" who lives on speed in the first team, has the best result just like that.
What moved Benfield even more was Xiao Ji's super high cadence, which means better acceleration! In a soccer field, instantaneous acceleration is much more important than absolute speed! And it's not just acceleration, he can maintain such a high cadence and must also have a very high foot frequency, which is a super talent exclusive to Messi!
In the next 30-meter sprint, as expected, Xiao Ji only took 3.7 seconds, which is the fastest 30-meter sprint record currently known!
Lou Jie was already crazy when he looked at everyone's surprised expressions, in fact, he himself was also surprised, Xiao Ji only showed him a long shot, and did not mention his speed.
After the strength test, Xiao Ji's upper body strength is relatively average, everything else is okay, and the most important thigh strength is unusually strong, surpassing all the players in the Arsenal team, it is hard to imagine that Xiao Ji's thighs are not particularly thick contains such terrifying power.
Benfield was pleased with the results of the fitness test, "these scouts didn't get paid for nothing, and this yellow man was actually more physically fit than those African players", which made him feel a lot better.
It's a pity that this good mood didn't last long, in the ball test, Xiao Ji's speed with the ball was far inferior to his speed without the ball, which was very average, and the subsequent ball control and passing were even more miserable.
Benfield was in disbelief at first, and then felt like his lungs were exploding, "What the hell, what the hell is this, what kind of play, those kids in the U9-U13 are 10,000 times better than him!" ā
Angry and laughing, Benfield sneered: "Yellow race, I think you are looking for the wrong club, Arsenal is a great football club, not a damn track and field club!" ā
The youth team players who were watching were also holding back hard at this time, and finally couldn't help laughing, and then were reprimanded by the physical trainer and dragged to run away.
Xiao Ji hurriedly defended: "Sir, what I'm good at is long-range shooting, please look at my shot first before making a conclusion." ā
"Enough! There's a bunch of youth players that I need to develop, and I don't have time to waste on football idiots like you! ā
Seeing Benfield like this, Xiao Ji simply didn't explain, put the ball in place, and took advantage of their time to stop it, and directly opened the distance and ran to shoot.
Benfield was startled when he saw Xiao Ji suddenly kick the goal, "This bastard, I rejected the trial, it won't be annoyed and angry and want to give me a kick, right?" Hurry up and squat down with your head on your side, don't pay attention to your image at this time, I'm so old and I can't bear to be smothered at close range.
Arsenal youth team goalkeeper Lionel Messi (this is Matthew?) Messi, not the briquette king) suddenly felt a white lightning bolt pass by him, and the wind even ruffled his long flowing hair.
When I looked back, there was already a white football quietly parked in the goal.
After Benfield squatted for a while, he found that there was no expected pain, "This bastard must have too poor footwork, the kick is too bad, he can't kick me at such a close distance, and he laughs at me", and immediately got up and was about to scold Xiao Ji.
But he suddenly found that the people around him were all dumbfounded, looking straight at a goal, as if there were aliens there.
Benfield followed their gaze, only Messi and Robert stood there, "Well, Messi's hair seems to be messed up, and there is nothing special about anything else", and then took a closer look, and found that there was a football in the goal, which was nothing unusual, it was normal to lose a ball during training, and it was abnormal to lose a ball without saving a ball.
Wait, that bastard kid just now seems to be shooting, it seems that he is aiming at the goal, not to retaliate against me, the kick is quite accurate, this place is the coach's seat, but Messi is not good, such a long-distance shot should be saved even if he doesn't know instinctively.
Thinking about it carefully, Benfield felt that it was wrong, there was nothing surprising about such a shot, it seemed that there were some things I hadn't noticed, so I couldn't figure it out and asked, anyway, he was the biggest here.
Benfield immediately asked the person closest to him, "Josephine, what happened just now, why are you all surprised?" ā
Josephine didn't even react at first, but after a while, he noticed that Benfield was asking him, and replied excitedly: "That yellow man's shot just now was amazing, the ball speed was very fast, very fast, the fastest I have ever seen in my life!" And it's just hanging on the dead end! ā
At this time, the others also came back to their senses one after another, and let out exclamations such as oh oh one after another.
After listening to Josephine's answer and watching the performance of others, Benfield touched his chin and wondered: The ball speed is very fast? He also said that he had seen the fastest in his life, Josephine had followed me for so many years, and his knowledge was not small, that should indeed have reached a kind of extreme speed, this kid said that he was good at long-range shooting, it seemed to be true, not indiscriminately blowing, then give him another chance to see his long-range shooting performance.
"Well, good shot, now let's test the shot." Benfield said casually, as if he hadn't crouched down to dodge at all.
Xiao Ji thought it was funny, but he wouldn't be stupid enough to expose him, so he honestly picked up a ball and walked to the goal.
Messi was in charge of the goal test this time, and he was hit so far by Xiao Ji just now, but he didn't react, Messi also felt that his face was gloomy, and he must fight for a breath this time.
Xiao Ji saw that Messi was strong and wearing well-armed protective gear, so this time he finally didn't have any scruples, and let go of his full force to kick.
He placed the football 30 meters away from the goal, and then ran to shoot, which was the same as he showed Lou Jie, and it was a standard batty goal.
Messi was very focused, his body tensed up when Xiao Ji was running, ready to save at any time, and then, when he saw Xiao Ji touch the ball, a shadow crossed by, and when he looked back, the football had stopped inside.
Like last time, he was still unresponsive this time, and the only consolation was probably that this time the shot was closer, and it was already harder to save.
For the next goal, Xiao Ji chose the inside instep banana ball, which naturally did not have the speed of a ball with strong spin as fast as Batty, who concentrated all his power in the center of the ball.
Therefore, Messi finally reacted this time, moved a few steps quickly, and jumped high to hold the ball directly.
Just when Messi was full of confidence, the football suddenly turned a corner in front of his eyes and flew in another direction, and Messi, who was in the air, had no choice.
Next is the banana ball with the outside instep, which Messi has noticed: this ball also has a strong spin, and it is in the opposite direction from the previous one, what a cunning guy, but unfortunately I have already seen through it.
Messi moved one more step to the left this time, and sure enough, the football suddenly turned to the left in front of the goal, Messi jumped, "This time it's better to be honest, just hold out the bottom line, wait, this trajectory is not right", Messi found that the football was about to be out of his control, and the arc of the ball was much larger than he imagined.
Messi could only turn his head and pray that the arc would be bigger, beyond the goal, but unfortunately it was not fulfilled, and the ball hit the post and then bounced into the goal.
After that, Xiao Ji kicked a tricky angle of the boccia, Messi had nothing to do with the ball, he was in the right direction, but the earth's gravity is so big, he can't change this physical law, and when he landed, the football had already rolled into the goal.
In the end, Messi didn't save any shots in the box, which made him very frustrated.
The header was not tested, because Xiao Ji couldn't do it at all now, and his waist and abdomen strength was not enough.
The goalkeeper's frustrated expression is the best proof of the shooter's marksmanship, and Benfield has seen it: Xiao Ji's shooting is very good, especially from a distance, not to mention the youth team, I am afraid that those strikers of the first team are not enough.
Benfield was in a quandary: Xiao Ji's speed and shooting were so exciting, but his other skills were so unbearable to look at that it was hard to choose.
Then let's do it, what is shown in the test will eventually be used in the actual battle, and if the actual performance is good, it will be useful, sign him, otherwise, reject it.